Vehicle running-gear



(No Model.)

I E. 0, PHASE.

VEHICLE RUNNING GEAR.

No. 449,427. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

lTED STATES PATENT union.

EDWIN O. PEASE, OF JERSEY CITY, NENV JERSEY.

VEHICLE RUNNING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,427, dated March 31, 1891..

Application filed January 2, 1891- Serial No. 376,528. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. PEASE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle Running- Gears; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in new and useful improvements in vehicle running-gears, and is especially adapted to the running-gears of side-bar buggies; and the invention will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 illustrates in detailthe forward end of the runninggear.

The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Referring to the several parts by letter, a a indicate the axles of the running-gear here illustrated, which are connected by the reach 2). Above the axles are secured the upwardly-curved springs or bars A, which are formed at their ends with the eyes or bearings A.

B B indicate the oscillating side bars, which pass through the eyes of the springbars A and are formed with the cranked forward ends B. Upon the side of the bars B, near each end thereof, are secured or formed the bows B and the two side bars are conn'ected by the flat springs O, the eyed ends 0 of which are pivotally engaged with the bows 13 of the side bars, as shown in the drawings.

Upon the ends of the oscillating side bars are secured heavy spiral springs D, which encircle the side bars at the points shown, having one of their ends secured to the side bars, usually to the bows B while their other ends are secured to the spring-bars A. The cranked forward end of one oscillating side bar extends upward, while the corresponding end of the other extends downward, and these two ends are pivotally connected by the compensating or equalizing bar E.

It will be seen that when any weight is placed in the body of the vehicle the side bars under the action of the flat springs C will turn in the end bearings of the springbars A, and the spiral springs D will receive the weight and give sufficiently to permit such movement of the side bars, while as soon as the weight is removed the spiral springs will turn the bars back to their original position, and the side bars and the spiral springs will thus receive the strain when the vehicle is passing over rough roads or uneven ground and at all other times, and by this construction the jar and vibration will be lessened, so as to be almost imperceptible. I

The equalizing-barE operates as follows: hen the weight is placed at one side of the vehicles body over the end of one of the flat Springs 0, the bar E, by causing the two spring-actuated side rods to always move to exactly the same extent, will thus distribute the weight equally over all parts of the springs, preventing itfrom being thrown upon any one spring. By this arrangement the weight, no matter where placed, will be always equalized and distributed evenly on the series of springs in the running-gear, causing the springs to last much longer and to Work with greater effect than wouldbe otherwise possible.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

v 1. In a running-gear, the combination,with end bars A, having the end bearings A, of the oscillating side bars I3 and the spiral springs arranged as described, and the flat springs O, pivotally connected at their ends with the oscillating side bar, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in arunning-gear, with end bars A, having the end bearing A, of the side bars formed with the cranked forward ends and having the bows E the spiral springs arranged as described, the equalizing-bar E, pivotally connected at its ends with the cranked forward ends of the side bars, and the flat springs C, connect-ed at their ends with the bows B of the side bars, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN O. PEASE.

Witnesses:

ROBT. K. WIoK, JAMES TUMILTY. 

